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When a patient registers at the hospital, is the patient’s regular doctor identified and recorded accurately?  Effective transition of care would dictate that this information is essential for the hospital to communicate care instructions to the right primary care provider in a timely manner.

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Matt's blog "How Would You Spend $100M" reminded me of one I wrote two years ago on this subject, and sadly not much has changed.  I calculated that a local hospital could provide primary care services twenty times for each uninsured patient for what they paid to purchase and deploy their EHR.  Surely there's a better way....

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Let’s face it: despite all kinds of incentives, financial and otherwise, statistics overwhelming indicate that the problem of readmissions isn’t improving. What other industries have a 20% return rate? While there are certainly issues that will and should land people back in the hospital, there are also many patients who shouldn’t go back.
 

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In the process of reading through the 400+ page rule on Accountable Care Organizations, a thought consistently surfaces: this program has the potential to change health care in this country.

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John Moore of the Digital Innovation Gazette examines the benefits new companies and new ideas gain from entering App Developer Competitions. Axial Exchange's Vice President of Products and Marketing, Matt Mattox, discusses the impact the first place win at the Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) has had upon Axial Exchange.

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